Hollywood hottie Ryan Reynolds has opened up for the first time about his split from ex-wife Scarlett Johansson, vowing to never get married again.

Their divorce might have been finalised in December after only two years of marriage, but the 34 year-old actor says the experience was extremely tough.

“Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain, but you come out of it,” the Canadian actor told Details magazine.

The split came as a huge shock after such a brief marriage, and both citied their busy schedules as the main cause. Even Reynolds confirmed there was “no story and no scandal” to the end of his marriage. Johansson has moved on to Sean Penn but Reynolds still holds her in high esteem.

“Departing a relationship and still maintaining the idea that this is still the same person I married is a great luxury that I experienced,” he says. “Thankfully I was in a relationship where two people chose to remain on the high road in every regard.”

“I’m not out of it yet. At all. But I sense that as I do come through it, there’s optimism. How can there not be?”

But he’s adamant that marriage isn’t on the cards for him anytime soon.

“I don’t think I want to get married again,’ he said. “But you always re-evaluate these things.”

“Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up. I gotta say, I’m a different person than I was six months ago.”